Principles of Nutritional Assessment

ISBN-13: 9780195171693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 928 str.

Rosalind S. Gibson

Opis

This is a comprehensive text on the methods - dietary, anthropometric, laboratory and clinical - of assessing the nutritional status of populations and of individuals in the hospital or the community. This Second Edition incorporates recent data from national nutritional surveys in the US and Europe; the flood of new information about iron, vitamin A and iodine; the role of folate in preventing neural tube defects; the use of HPLC techniques and enzyme assays; improvements in data handling; and many other developments.
A paperback edition of this book is available to readers living outside of North America and Europe. Interested parties should contact the author at: rsgibson@nutrition.earthlight.co.nz http: //nutrition.earthlight.co.nz

Recenzje

I would recommend this book to all health care professionals involved in nutritional assessment in acute and community settings. Students from a variety of disciplines would also find the book an extremely good reference guide to nutritional assessment.